A cellular telephone (100) that searches for a destination base station in
accordance with a handoff instruction receives a soft handoff instruction
or a hard handoff that is able to specify a first search window size.
When the hard handoff instruction is received, a search block (70) is
controlled so that a window control block (83) searches for pilot signals
from neighboring base stations using a search window having a size larger
than one of the first search window size and a third search window size
that is used when the soft handoff instruction is received.